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ERASTUS W. SCOTT, OF WAUREGAN, CONNECTICUT.

Leners Patent No. 88,813, mea April 13,1869.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the lame.

To all persons to 'whoml these presents nm/y come:

Be it known that I, ERAsTUs W. SCOTT of Wauregan, in the county of Windham, and State of Connecticut, have made a newand useful invention'having reference to the support of a pail during the operation of collecting milk therein from a cow or other animal while being milked; and I do hereby declare the same- `with the stool on which the milker usually sits, a mechanism for grasping and supporting the pail, in order to relieve the legs of thermilker from the performance of such duty, and also from inconvenience and fatigue consequent thereon.

In the drawings- A denotes a milkers stool, of the common form.

To the bolt B, extending up through the seat of the stool, I apply two curved levers, O C, they being formed and arranged in manner as represented. The bolt is the common fulcrum of the two levers.

The shorter arms of the two levers are furnished with two triangular projections, a a, between which there is inserted a wedge, b, extended down om a lever, D, through which the bolt, B, passes.

A helical spring, b', is arranged on the bolt, and between the' head c thereof and the said lever D.

Fiu'thermore, there is another spring, E, which is arranged between the longer arms ofthe levers O C, and is applied to them so as to force them asunder and for the purpose specified.

after the lever D may have been relieved by the weight of a sitter.

A milk-pail, F, being arranged between the said two arms, will be grasped and held firmly by them, when a person may sit on the longer arm of the lever D, so as to press the same downward. In suchy case, the wedge of the lever will be forcedor moved down between the projections of the. shorter arms of the curved levers, and, as a consequence, will press themasunder, so as to muse the longer or curved arms to firmly grasp the pail.

The spring b enables the lever, when a person may be sitting on it, to be borne down upon the seat, whatever may be the size of the pail grasped by the jaws of the holding-levers.

In using a milking-seat, or stool having appliances as set forth, the user has merely to introduce the pail between the curved arms of the holding-levers, and next sit down upon the longer arm of the' lever D, so

as to force it .downward toward or against the seat.-

I claim as my invention- The combination of a milkers stool, and mechanism applied to it for supporting a milk-pail with reference to it, substantially as described.

I also claim the combination and arrangement of the lever D, and its wedge b, With the two curved levers C C, such levers being provided with the projections a a, or their equivalents, to operate with the wedge.

I also claim the combination and arrangement of the spring b' with the bolt, or standard B, and their levers D C O, applied and arranged together, substantially as ERASTUS W. SCOTT.' Witnesses:

WILLIAM DYER, O. T. BROWN. 

